GST is a destination-based tax that will replace the current Central taxes and duties such as Excise Duty, Service Tax, Counter Vailing Duty (CVD), Special Additional Duty of Customs (SAD), Central Charges & Cesses and Local State Taxes, like Value Added Tax (VAT), Central Sales Tax (CST), Octroi, Entry Tax, Purchase Tax, Luxury Tax, Taxes on lottery, betting and gambling, state cesses and surcharges and Entertainment tax (other than the tax levied by the local bodies).

It will be a dual levy with State/Union territory GST and Central GST. Moreover, inter–state supplies would attract an Integrated GST, which would be the sum total of CGST and SGST/UTGST.

Consensus between Central and state governments has been reached on four-tier rate structure as follows (published by GST Council):

GST Rates are based on Revenue Neutral Rates. Following are the proposed rate types and the rates are not yet finalized as on the blog posted date:

Merit rate => For essential goods and services.

Standard rate => For goods and services in general.

Special rate => For precious metals and for specified goods and services.

Zero rate => For exports, supply to EOU/SEZ etc.

Goods and Services outside the purview of GST:

Alcohol for Human consumption => will continue with State Excise and VAT

Electricity => will continue with Electricity Duty

Petroleum Products => will continue with the current tax structure, likely to be brought under GST regime later

Tobacco products expected to be taxed under the GST regime along with Excise dutyGoods and Service Tax

As we nearing the implementation date of July 1st, 2017, it’s very critical for companies who have operations in India to accommodate GST changes in their Oracle ERP systems to be compliance.

Oracle provided phased approach for implementing GST

GST development execution is being phased to accelerate delivery and to enable early access

Phase 1 – GST infrastructure: dev complete and available through early access program for customers and partners starting in November 2016.

Phase 2 – GST model law and transition capabilities: enhancements based on the draft GST Model Law published in June 2016 and updated in November 2016, and infrastructure to support the transition from the current tax regime to GST

Phase 3 – Final GST requirements: additional requirements that may come in final specifications published by the government that cannot be addressed by functionality delivered in phase 1 and 2. This phase may or may not be needed as it is entirely dependent on what late specification changes may or may not come from the Government of India.

The India GST patch will be available for EBS release version 12.1.1 onwards. GST patch will work for all EBS versions that are on premier or extended support as of the date of the release of patch (e.g. 12.1.x and 12.2.x). It will not be available for any release versions that are in sustaining support (e.g. 11.5.10).

There are major functional and design changes for the GST solution. Some of that includes: unified regime to rate flow for every tax type with user configurable tax types, date effective tax computation logic, user configurable taxable events, tax defaulting logic based on user configurable rules, major process changes for input tax credit management, and unified tax repositories, etc.

If it returns <testresponse>, then the setup is performed successfully and working as expected.

If you got no response page when testing with “http://server_name:port/webservices/SOAProvider/?testquery”, please check the following.

Verify ASADMIN application user is unlocked and password is working.

Check and confirm password of ASADMIN under $ORA_CONFIG_HOME/10.1.3/j2ee/oafm/config/system-jazn-data.xml.

Example:

<user>

<name>ASADMIN</name>

<display-name>Default Apps SOA User</display-name>

<guid>51A6C7C035CA11E7BFAA8BE9754F2384</guid>

<description>Used by SOAProvider for DB connection</description>

<credentials>!asadminpw123</credentials>

</user>

Note: The password should be preceded by a ‘!’ (Exclamation) so that when OAFM is started, it gets encrypted. For example, if your password is ‘welcome’, then you should write it in the above file as “!welcome”.

Source: How to Clear the Cache Using Functional Administrator? (Doc ID 759038.1)

Note: If you have removed the _pages manually and are facing login issue that’s blank screen.Use the ojspcompile.plperl script to perform a manual pre-compilation of the JSP pages.The following command will compile all the JSP pages and build up the JSP cache again.

perl $FND_TOP/patch/115/bin/ojspCompile.pl –compile –flush -p 2

This utility is also used by the AD utilities to perform this action such as when patches are applied that replace one or more JSP pages

What is SSH: Secure Shell (SSH) is an open source cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. The best-known example application is for remote login to computer systems by users. SSH provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client-server architecture, connecting an SSH client application with an SSH server.

What is SSH-KEYGEN: ssh-keygen is a standard component of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol suite found on Unix and Unix-like computer systems used to establish secure shell sessions between remote computers over insecure networks, through the use of various cryptographic techniques. The ssh-keygen utility is used to generate, manage, and convert authentication keys. ssh-keygen is able to generate a key using one of three different digital signature algorithms.